Mahershala Ali to headline restricted sequence The Plot

By Express News Service

Actor Mahershala Ali has been roped in to star in an eight-episode restricted sequence titled The Plot. The sequence is an adaptation of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s best-selling novel of the identical identify.

Mahershala AliThe psychological thriller follows Jacob Finch Bonner, a once-promising novelist, who turns into a professor struggling to take care of his self-respect. He decides to rise to fame once more by stealing the work of a late pupil. However, the choice adjustments his life perpetually. When an nameless message alerts him to the truth that somebody is aware of what he’s completed, there’s no telling what Jake will do to guard his secret.

Notably, this isn’t the primary time {that a} Korelitz story is getting a television sequence adaptation. 2020’s HBO miniseries The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, is the television adaptation of Korelitz’s You Should Have Known.

The Plot will probably be showrun by Abby Ajay, whose earlier credit embrace Inventing Anna and How to Get Away with Murder. Ali may also function an govt producer together with Mimi Valdés and Amatus Karim Ali.  Layne Eskridge and Kristen Campo additionally govt produce.